I'm not feeling inspired to post much or many details about all the festivities in December so I'm going to give it to you bullet point format.
"Crazy" Uncle Nick (as my kids call him) comes back into town, much to the joy of our household!
Intense - I mean INTENSE gingerbread house making endeavors which overtook our kitchen for two days! It was like a gingerbread house explosion in there! We were very proud of our results!
Delicious Christmas Eve tradition of Fondue with our friends. Olivia, whom I met on my mission in Belgium, can truly appreciate the fondue and brought a light and luscious buche de noel - one of my all time favorite Christmas traditions from my mission.
Christmas Eve snugglies with the cutest and smooshiest children alive!!!!
Christmas morning was relaxing and fun. Everyone enjoyed unwrapping their presents!
And we finally gave our kids the rocking Eeyore that Justin made when I was pregnant with SAGE! It has moved with us to be stored from CO to NC to UT and finally here in MA, just hiding and biding its time until the time was right! The original rocking horse was made by my dad before I was born. My mom redesigned it into Eeyore with her artistic perfection and Justin did all the cutting and assembling. The paint and embellishing was a team effort! (Somebody's toe is bound to get crushed under the thing I just know it.)
A relaxing Christmas afternoon with our dearest friends.
Another fun photo shoot with the bro. For more from this shoot click HERE.
Though we were far from the entire family even just having Nick here helped everything feel complete, along with friends who for all intents and purposes are our family here.
It was a fabulous Christmas holiday! We hope everyone else had a great season as well.
Now on to 2012...wait. I thought it was still 2010. I'm getting old.
Yeah for Eyore! Finally. Hey, isn't that my leather jacket? Looks great on you. Maybe if I ran marathons I could still fit in it :)
Posted by: Grandmere | January 26, 2012 at 09:01 PM
-Yay for bullet points!
-You must wear that coat every day for the rest of your life. You look fantastic in it.
-Yay for *adopted* family!!
Posted by: Amy Kyle | January 08, 2012 at 08:09 PM